#Hadoop
- Hadoop streaming uses STDIN to feed data to the mapper and STDOUT picks up data
- No concept of files, instead each line is treated as a record.
#SwiftReduce
- Currently mappers take filename as input via STDIN
- TODO - Mappers to take filepointers in addition to filenames.
- Reducers currently are expected to send output to STDOUT, this limits output streams to 1.
- TODO - Reducers to be able to returns FILES ...